Biographies of U.S. Astronauts
AptJerome III "Jay"USA |
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Personal data
| Birthdate: | 28.04.1949 |
| Birthplace: | Springfield, Massachusetts |
| Marital status: | married |
| Children: | two |
| Selection date: | 04.06.1985 |
| Selection group: | NASA-11 |
| Position: | MSP |
| Status: | Ret. 31.05.1997 |
Spaceflights
| No. | Mission | Position | Time | Duration |
| 1 | STS-37 Atlantis | MS | 05.04. - 11.04.1991 | 5d 23h 32m |
| 2 | STS-47 Endeavour | MS | 12.09. - 20.09.1992 | 7d 22h 30m |
| 3 | STS-59 Endeavour | MS | 09.04. - 20.04.1994 | 11d 05h 49m |
| 4 | STS-79 Atlantis | MS | 16.09. - 26.09.1996 | 10d 03h 18m |
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| Total | 35d 07h 09m | |||
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Additional information
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Graduated from Shady Side Academy, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, 1967; Bachelor of arts in physics from Harvard College, 1971;
Ph.D. in physics from
MIT, 1976; from 1980 - 1982 he joined the Earth and
Space Sciences Division of
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; unsuccessful
application for
NASA
astronaut groups 9 and
10; he left
NASA in late May 1997 to become director of the
Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; hobbies: scuba
diving, camping, photography, model rocketry and amateur radio. |
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